Building Permit (Commercial New Construction, Retail, Office, Manufacturing) — Sedgwick, Colorado · Requirements sheet
Verified 2026-08-26 · Source: https://www.sedgwickcolorado.com/_files/ugd/4d4221_f8fb7a7edf4d454c9dace02132543ad7.pdf
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Building Permit (Commercial New Construction, Retail, Office, Manufacturing) in Sedgwick, Colorado
The Town of Sedgwick has no distinct commercial-building-permit or tenant-improvement permit: this same form and $60 flat fee is what a Retail, Office, or Manufacturing 'New Building' project uses. The Town's single Application for Building Permit is built to intake commercial work directly — its header asks the parcel to be declared 'Zoned: Residential / Commercial / Other,' Section B's New Building category list includes Retail, Service, Office/Offices, and Manufacturing alongside the residential categories, and a 'Non-Residential Only' subsection collects number of parking spaces, person capacity, sprinkler system (yes/no), and number of emergency exits. Interior alterations to an existing commercial building (a tenant-improvement-type project) are filed under the same form's Section A 'Alteration (Add/Move walls)' checkbox. Reviewed and approved or denied by the Town's Zoning Administrator; there is no separate commercial plan-review body or contracted-out building official.
Verified 2026-08-26 · Source
When you need this permit
- Completed Application for Building Permit form, declaring the parcel 'Zoned: Commercial' in the form header
- For a commercial New Building (Section B): check Retail, Service, Office/Offices, or Manufacturing as the project category
- Section B's 'Non-Residential Only' subsection requires # of Parking Spaces, Person Capacity, Sprinkler System (yes/no), and # of Emergency Exits
- For an interior alteration/tenant-improvement-type project to an existing commercial building, check 'Alteration (Add/Move walls)' under Section A instead of Section B
- A drawing/site plan showing the location of all proposed improvements or buildings, property lines, and approximate water and sewer line locations must be attached
- Compliance with the Town's Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance for setbacks, height, and lot coverage percentage (Sedgwick Town Code Section 153.01; Commercial 1/C1 and Commercial Zoning Highway Business/C2 are the Town's two codified commercial districts)
- Contractors must attach or email proof of insurance to the Town (sedgwickco@pctelcom.coop) before the permit will be issued Contractor
- General Contractor, Plumber, Engineer, and Electrician (as applicable) must be identified by name, mailing address, and phone, with licensed/insured status disclosed on the form
- Electrical and plumbing work on a commercial project route to the State the same as on a residential project ('State Permit Required' on the form); the Town has not adopted a trade code to review these itself
- All State Permits and the Town's Local Building Permit must be physically posted on the property before starting the project
- Applicant and Contractor signatures required on the form
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Fee schedule
Application Fee + Permit Fee combined, per the form header ('$60 Total Due'); Show full citationHide
Application Fee + Permit Fee combined, per the form header ('$60 Total Due'); confirmed by direct re-fetch of the Application for Building Permit PDF, which still prints '$30 for Application & $30 for Permit ($60 Total Due)' with no valuation field and no occupancy-based tier. The Zoning Ordinance's own Building Permits section (Section 7) states only that the fee is 'payable to the Town of Sedgwick upon receipt of the application as set by the Board of Trustees,' with no separate commercial rate set out in that ordinance textReview timeline
Inspection process
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Zoning Administrator Review
Application reviewed by the Town's Zoning Administrator for zoning compliance (setbacks, height, lot coverage), the Non-Residential Only fields (parking, occupant capacity, sprinklers, emergency exits) where applicable, and receipt of required contractor insurance; results in a written Approved or Denied determination with reason if denied. No separate commercial plan-review body, fire-code plan review, or contracted-out building official was found — direct checks of the Code of Ordinances and Zoning Ordinance for a plan-review contractor name (the pattern used by many small Colorado towns) found none.
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Tips
- A flat $60 total fee applying to a commercial 'New Building' project — the same as a residential one, with no valuation-based scaling — is unusual, but it is what the Town's own Application for Building Permit PDF states: '$30 for Application & $30 for Permit ($60 Total Due),' with no separate commercial line. Zoning Ordinance Section 7 likewise sets the fee generically, 'payable to the Town of Sedgwick upon receipt of the application as set by the Board of Trustees,' with no occupancy-based tier anywhere in that text.
- Sedgwick has NOT adopted the IBC, IRC, or any modern model building code for general construction — Sedgwick Town Code Chapter 152 ('Building Code') is explicitly marked [Reserved] in the currently codified Code of Ordinances. Do not assume ICC-based commercial plan review or expect an adopting ordinance/code-section citation for a commercial edition; none exists. The only International Code citations anywhere in the Town's Code are narrow 2012 IFC/IBC provisions for marijuana cultivation/manufacturing/testing facility exiting and security (Chapter 112), which do not apply to ordinary commercial construction.
- No separate plan-review fee, percentage add-on, or hourly rate is published for a commercial project — the $60 total is the only fee the Town's Application for Building Permit or Zoning Ordinance names for a Building Permit of any occupancy.
- No fire-district or fire-marshal review is published for a commercial building permit. The Town's Code of Ordinances has no Fire Department chapter (its full chapter list runs 10-12, 30-31, 50-52, 70-72, 90-92, 110-112, 130, and 150-154), and the only Fire Department mention anywhere in the Code is a single emergency-entry sentence in Chapter 12 (Inspections); confirm current expectations with Town Hall before assuming a fire-district sign-off applies.
- No dedicated construction-materials use tax collected at permit issuance is published. The Town's Code of Ordinances, Chapter 30, imposes a general 1% retail sales tax (Section 30.33); the only 'use tax' language in that section is an exemption carve-out for materials on which a use tax was already collected by another Town, city, or county, not a Sedgwick-levied use tax charged on a building permit.
- Plan review is not contracted out to a third-party firm (e.g., SAFEbuilt, Colorado Code Consulting) — no such contractor is named anywhere in the Town's Code of Ordinances, Zoning Ordinance, or Application for Building Permit; the Zoning Administrator reviews and approves or denies the application directly.
- Electrical and plumbing work on a commercial project are routed to the State the same way as on a residential project ('State Permit Required' on the form) — the Town's $60 fee does not cover those trades.
- Sedgwick does have real, codified commercial zoning districts — Commercial 1 (C1) and Commercial Zoning Highway Business (C2) — so commercial land use itself is a recognized category here; it is specifically the building-permit process and fee that are unified with residential, not commercial construction generally.
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